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Ultrasound-based Imaging to Detect Early Changes of Hard and Soft Tissue Around Immediately Placed Implants With or Without Soft Tissue Augmentation

Ultrasound-based Imaging to Detect Early Changes of Hard and Soft Tissue Around Immediately Placed Implants With or Without Soft Tissue Augmentation

Status
Terminated
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05330702
Enrollment
31
Registered
2022-04-15
Start date
2023-01-17
Completion date
2024-03-04
Last updated
2025-10-29

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Immediate Implant Placement, Tooth Extraction

Brief summary

Mid-facial recession following immediate implant placement (IIP) in the place of a tooth poses a significant challenge for clinicians to treat. Emerging evidence shows that connective tissue graft (CTG) augmentation may mitigate the remodeling of the buccal bone crest (i.e., bone within the gum that supports the tooth), and lessen the soft tissue recession. A recent systemic review suggested a supplemental CTG grafting to IIP as a standard of care, especially for cases that have a high esthetic risk, specifically with a thin gingival biotype (i.e., thin gum tissue) and a thin buccal bone plate. The alternative option to augment the facial contour is the xenogeneic volume-stable collagen matrix (VCMX), which favors avoiding morbidity but hasn't been thoroughly investigated on IIP. Despite that IIP has attracted considerable scientific interest, the dynamic changes of the bone crest and soft tissue, especially during the early healing stage (\<3 months following IIP), are little known. Recently, an ultrasonography protocol has been validated for its diagnostic value in dental implant research. High-frequency B-mode imaging and color flow and power Doppler are implemented to display the spatial relation of anatomic landmarks of peri-implant tissues and to visualize the flow velocity and blood volume, respectively. It provides a valuable real-time diagnostic tool to evaluate hard and soft tissue remodeling and tissue perfusion changes during the early healing stage around IIP, comparing CTG and VCMX grafting. Hence, the purpose of this three-arm RCT is to compare the clinical efficacy and longitudinal remodeling of hard and soft tissue around IIP among CTG, VCMX, and control (without soft tissue augmentation) group. This will be the first evidence of the longitudinal tissue changes around immediate implant, and the first RCT comparing the clinical efficacy and esthetic outcome of xenogenic soft tissue substitute (i.e., from the non-living bone of another species) to the gold standard approach (CTG) on the immediate implants.

Interventions

DEVICEXenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) graft No Intervention: No Soft Tissue Augmentation

Fibro-gide is the VCMX

PROCEDURETuberosity Connective Tissue Graft (CTG)

CTG will be taken from the patient's own mouth

Sponsors

University of Iowa
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 95 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age 18-95 * Has a single hopeless tooth in the maxillary esthetic zone (i.e., first premolar to first premolar, tooth #5-tooth #13) * Adequate oral hygiene (i.e., full-mouth bleeding score (FMBS) and full mouth plaque score (FMPS) of less than 25%) * Adequate tooth space to support an immediate implant placement (i.e., adequate mesiodistal space of greater than or equal to 6 mm and interocclusal space to support a non-occluding provisionalization). * Postextraction vertical bone defect of the buccal socket wall was less than or equal to 3mm.

Exclusion criteria

* patients taking long-term (more than 3 months) medications affecting bone metabolism * generalized untreated periodontitis with greater than of 30% of sites with greater than 5mm pocket depths and bleeding upon probing with a dental probe * medical contraindications for having a surgical procedure (i.e., ASA Status of III, patient with a severe systemic disease that is not life-threatening; ASA Status of IV, a patient with a severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life). * history of radiotherapy in the head and neck region * heavy smoker (greater than 10 cigarettes per day) * pregnancy * gingival recession before extraction in relation to the contralateral tooth.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Percentage of Participants That Had an Implant That Survived 6 Months After Immediate Implant Placement Either With or Without Soft Tissue Grafting6 months after immediate implant placementFor participants that had immediate implant placement either with or without soft tissue grafting, this outcome is determined via clinical evaluation of the percentage of participants that still had their 1 implant in place after 6 months. Note: Only 1 implant was placed per participant.

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Tuberosity Connective Tissue Graft (CTG)
Subjects in this arm will have a tuberosity connective tissue graft at the time of immediate implant placement. Tuberosity Connective Tissue Graft (CTG): CTG will be taken from the patient's own mouth
11
Xenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) Graft
Subjects in this arm will have Xenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) graft at the time of immediate implant placement. Xenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) graft No Intervention: No Soft Tissue Augmentation: Fibro-gide is the VCMX
13
No Soft Tissue Augmentation
Subjects in this arm will have no soft tissue augmentation at the time of immediate implant placement.
7
Total31

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000FG001FG002
Overall StudyStudy terminated before all 6-month visit data could be collected955

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicTuberosity Connective Tissue Graft (CTG)Xenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) GraftNo Soft Tissue AugmentationTotal
Age, Categorical
<=18 years
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Age, Categorical
>=65 years
5 Participants8 Participants2 Participants15 Participants
Age, Categorical
Between 18 and 65 years
6 Participants5 Participants5 Participants16 Participants
Race and Ethnicity Not Collected0 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
3 Participants8 Participants3 Participants14 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
8 Participants5 Participants4 Participants17 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
EG002
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
0 / 20 / 80 / 2
other
Total, other adverse events
0 / 20 / 80 / 2
serious
Total, serious adverse events
0 / 20 / 80 / 2

Outcome results

Primary

Percentage of Participants That Had an Implant That Survived 6 Months After Immediate Implant Placement Either With or Without Soft Tissue Grafting

For participants that had immediate implant placement either with or without soft tissue grafting, this outcome is determined via clinical evaluation of the percentage of participants that still had their 1 implant in place after 6 months. Note: Only 1 implant was placed per participant.

Time frame: 6 months after immediate implant placement

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Tuberosity Connective Tissue Graft (CTG)Percentage of Participants That Had an Implant That Survived 6 Months After Immediate Implant Placement Either With or Without Soft Tissue Grafting2 Participants
Xenogeneic Volume-Stable Collagen Matrix (VCMX) graftPercentage of Participants That Had an Implant That Survived 6 Months After Immediate Implant Placement Either With or Without Soft Tissue Grafting8 Participants
No Soft Tissue AugmentationPercentage of Participants That Had an Implant That Survived 6 Months After Immediate Implant Placement Either With or Without Soft Tissue Grafting2 Participants

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026